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<span class="highlight">Hawk</span> Eye and Rafale Leaving Charles de Gaulle Aircraft CarrierFri, 27 Feb 2015 04:50:56 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ba8_1425030502
euronymusFor the third day, French planes were leaving the air craft carrier Charles de Gaulle to strike Islamic State groupe positions in Iraq.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ba8_1425030502euronymus<span class="highlight">Hawk</span> Eye and Rafale Leaving Charles de Gaulle Aircraft CarrierCharles, de, gaulle, aircraft, carrier, hawk, eye, rafale, isil, isis, isLonely <span class="highlight">Hawk</span> Makes a New FriendTue, 24 Feb 2015 22:00:37 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3f0_1424833215
Viral VideoThis lone, red-tailed hawk was traversing the skies over Denver, Colorado, when it encountered a new companion: a kite. The uploader's daughter kept the kite in the air, while the bird happily joined in the flying fun! Credit: YouTube/DIYDadhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3f0_1424833215Viral VideoLonely <span class="highlight">Hawk</span> Makes a New FriendViral VideoBurlington police officer wont be charged in killing woman accidentallySun, 01 Mar 2015 13:47:09 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f2f_1425235438
snafu21This is an update to a story in January
The Des Moines County attorney ruled no criminal charges will be
filed against a Burlington police officer who fatally shot a woman while
trying to thwart a dog attack.Amy Beavers announced her decision
Friday to not charge Officer Jesse Hill in the shooting death of Autumn
Steele, 34, the Associated Press reported.The shooting occurred
when Hill was responding to a domestic dispute in Burlington on Jan. 6.
At the scene, Hill fired his weapon twice to stop an attack by a German
shepherd, according to the Associated Press.One round hit Steele in the middle part of her torso. She was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
Authorities said Hill was treated at the Great River Medical Center for at least one dog bite, and was later released.
The
Associated Press reported that Bevers said her decision was supported
by body camera evidence, witness statements and reports from the Iowa
Division of Criminal Investigation. Hill had to make an instantaneous
decision as the threat was occurring, Bevers said.Adam J. Klein,
an attorney who represents Steele's 7-year-old son, said in a news
release that Bevers statement on her decision makes it appear as if she
reached her "determination by simply ignoring Iowa law."Klein
said Bevers ignored a part of Iowa law that says involuntary
manslaughter, as an aggravated misdemeanor, is punishable "when the
person unintentionally causes the death of another person by the
commission of an act in a manner likely to cause death or serious
injury."Klein argued that Hill's actions would fit under this
section. In the news release, Klein said Bevers "does not argue
otherwise; instead, she has simply ignored the law."Hill has remained on administrative leave since the shooting, the Burlington Hawk Eye reported.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f2f_1425235438snafu21Burlington police officer wont be charged in killing woman accidentallyCop, Murder, Shooting, Dog, Kittens, Accident, Killed UPDATED: Nemtsov wire taps: how to organize Russian Maidan on the phone. Part 1Sun, 01 Mar 2015 09:09:48 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dd5_1425218087
TruelFebruary 28, 2015
Translated by Kristina Rus
Nemtsov's statements are highlighted in bold
Hello!
Hello! Are you coming at 1 o'clock?
Of course, I am trying to dry my hair. While I was washing my hair, I got called five times.
Do you dry your hair in front of the computer?
What would you like?
I want to write in your Live Journal, on Facebook, write about the situation with this place, so this scum will stop to... last night they were having fun all night on Twitter, as you know, right?
Yes, I know, today we will get together at Udaltsov, and at 2 o'clock at Ilya Ponomarev and Udaltsov. We will send someone from Solidarnost, for a press conference at the independent press center. Delyagin wrote that the meeting is coordinated between Solidarnost and the Left front
So they stopped squealing already?
Yes.
Bastards, f%ck. Is the scum Chirikova still barking?
The scum Chirikova continues to bark along with Limonov.
Limonov I don't care about at all. Ok, I am suggesting to write a short post in Live Journal.
Can I tell Misha to write that?
Where is Misha?
He is at the computer
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Panyechka!
Borya! Hello dear!
Hi!
Why couldn't you convince Chirikova, a chick! Jesus!
She is f%cked up, how can I convince her?
Yes she is f$cked up, of course
No, she doesn't want to hear anything. Do you understand the point? At least do you understand it?
I read something online...
Those who will come to the Revolution square, for them a passage, a march will be organized to Bolotnaya. They are cretins! They should put up a monument for me instead of Dzerzhinsky on Lubyanka! What?
And then steal the archives once again!
You are right, I will steal them...
You are a great Russian writer, can you call Chirikova, and say, Chirikova, b%tch you are insulting Nemtsov, saying he did it for money, did you hear this? This f#cked up b$tch wrote this. Call this rat and tell her to behave!
Who am I for her, of course, I could try
No, she respects you, you are Panechkin, a famous writer, explain the motivation, explain what happened, that I didn't fold, didn't write any letters. You can read in my Live Journal or Facebook, about what happened. They told me the right thing, they said, you cannot fit that many people on that square, and this is true. It's true... And since there will be a lot of people from the office plankton, the internet hamsters, who had never seen a live OMON soldier, I don't want to have any people beaten by bats, that's it!
I agree with you
So call her, and tell her to shut up! When someone is arrested, she calls me, when she wants to go to America, she calls me, when she needs help with customs, she calls me,
when she wants to help some victims, she calls me, when she needs money for anti-Seliger, she calls me, and then Nemtsov is a traitor, f$ck, is she not a scum?
You should loose the tone, Borya
I will loose the tone, I am just talking to you like this
She is is a stupid idiot, everyone understands this
Being angry will not make it better, everyone understands that she is an idiot
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Hello!
Borya?
Hello!
Who is this?
Yashin
Yashin, f#ck! First of all let me tell you the latest news. First of all we reconciled today with those morons.
Yes, I know, I asked Misha to post your video statement
Yes this is the first good news. Second is not news, but a request. I think Lesha needs to go for president
Who thinks?
I think, me, Nemtsov thinks. But I need for him to mumble something about this.
He is not ready so far
I understand, but, keep in mind, the situation is the following. Vovochka Ryzhkov wants to go for it. I don't like the idea, because it's not feasible, do you understand?
I understand
But he, b$th, will break all of us, because he found the money
You shouldn't present anyone. It will be taken very badly by the people
I understand, but he was given money
This is not about money. No one will support him. He is, softly speaking, not an optimal candidate. If you will announce him as a candidate for president at the meeting, the reaction will be inadequate. Don't do that.
Ilya, I agree, let's talk about the Revolution square. Do you know the story? I think we did everything very f$cken beautiful
Thank God
And there is my part in this, too. Very important that you write a declaration for the meeting, which someone or I may read, that the opposition needs to be united, that our goal is just to deal with them
I wrote the declaration, and gave it to Misha
That it's good that you found a compromise, and is very important, that the authorities should carry responsibility for that chaos they started, but don't write, "Don't go to the Revolution square"
We didn't write this
Someone told me you wrote this, this is wrong.
This is BS. I didn't write this. I wrote... We held consultations all day. As a result I wanted to write a declaration about Bolotnaya, but no one supported me, and we decided to say "Come out and protest" Neutral like that.
No, that's ok, you know, the authorities have contacted me
Borya, we wrote, we need peaceful protests, come out and protest.
That's fine, but don't concentrate on the Revolution square, because most people never went to anywhere
I know. How many people are coming?
36 thousand on Facebook
But what's your assessment? 10 thousand?
F$ck knows. Venedictov is taking a very f$cked up position, runs around...
You have to come to the Revolution square tomorrow, and lead the people from there.
This is what I wanted to do, but I was told that they will arrest me
If you come to the Revolution square?
Yes
Why?
They just called me from Interfax. I didn't get it yet, But the Prosecutor...
You have to go anyway, because if you don't come to the Revolution square you will be eaten alive because Twitter is on fire
Twitter is not on fire any more
No, it's on fire. If you come and say, lead the people to Bolotnaya, why would they arrest you? That's stupid
They don't arrest for something, they arrest on orders
If they arrest you, then fine, it will be the main headline
We are not fighting for headlines
I understand we are not fighting for headlines, but I think if you don't come it will be wrong
No, I will come, you don't have to talk me into it. I already decided
I think it is very important that you come to the Revolution square
I know, I am going to come
Because of what they wrote, I think it will solve that problem
What did they write? I didn't ask anything, I didn't write anything, and I said, please give me a letter, how will you provide security, they gave it to me, the deputy mayor called...
I know
I talked to him today, Nastya is meeting with him right now
I know, tell me the main thing, as far as I understand the only one who separated from you is Limonov, right? Anyone else?
F$ck him
Is there anyone else?
May be the Left Front, but they are not very active
Ilya Yashin
Ilya Yashin is a Russian activist and liberal politician, one of key leaders of political party <<RPR-PARNAS>>, co-founder and one of leaders of political movement Solidarnost. He is also the leader of the Moscow branch of the RPR-PARNAS, in which the Solidarnost participates. In 2005 he was one of founders of civic youth movement Oborona. Active participant of Dissenters' Marches and rallies <<For Fair Elections>>. In 2012 he was elected in Russian Opposition Coordination Council.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello!
Olechka, hi, do you know if we got instructions? Have you seen it?
No, I only saw a text in the news
Because I didn't get it, I am at home, are they going through Interfax?
Yes, probably
Understood. Second, about tomorrow, I will come to the Revolution square, and will ask to go to Bolotnaya queitly. Are you coming with me?
I think I should be on Bolotnaya, an hour early. I am asking, what do you think?
I think the most important thing is to be with me
Ok, I can be with you, but we should do something about the journalists
First of all I already made arrangements with some serious security (Gary's). Second, we will drive up to the Duma, and will come out at Duma and will walk. I will just ask the people to quietly walk to Bolotnaya
Do you know about the talks at the mayor's office? Did they end?
They didn't end. Because if they ended, they would all call me. Were are you, beautiful?
I am home, but I have to go to Kasyanov's, they have a party there
I know I am already here
And I didn't come, I forgot, where is it?
Ok come over, Pirogovka 53 55
I have another question, Devodchenko is in a hospital
Who is the first one after him?
There is an option of Akunin, but the Left front is against him. That's first. Second, what do you think about Alexander Sklar?
Fine, but not the first
And what about Ulitskaya?
Fine, but not the first.
Not the first, of course.
Sure, I don't mind. Just don't change the list too much
Do you know Sklar?
Yes I know, a singer. Has the information field imroved?
Much much improved
They stopped barking, no longer a traitor...
No longer a traitor, did Chirikova apologize?
No
So she thinks it's fine?
No, she is a b$tch or an idiot
I called Oleg Kozyrev, who wrote a horrible post yesterday about a betrayal. I asked him, Oleg, I can understand emotions and negativity, but could you call and ask first before writing?
Did he write a better post today?
Of course, he posted a video message. He said, it was our first reaction. I said you should understand, what happened, and then write
I understand, they are assholes, of course. But it is a waste of time to wait for an apology
It was barbaric
But now they are quiet, they are on our side
Only Chirikova is saying that we will have a march, and that Nemtsov will close the column at Echo Moscow
What an idiot. I said that I will have to be the last one to leave, but I didn't say about the march
Yes, she is an idiot. Ilya Krasilshik called me and asked what's going on? I said, just don't pay attention to Chirikova
She will be arrested tomorrow, and it will be all over
We wouldn't like for her to be arrested
Wouldn't like to, but she is asking for it She wants to be a political prisoner. She is all about PR. She is a total scum, because no one had helped her as much as I had helped her
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Hello!
Borya, can you answer one question which is killing me?
Sure
I am reading Facebook, Internet, and I see that all the normal people are writing, that if anyone is asking you to come for a march (to walk on the streets, to Lubyanka, to Kremlin), instead of a rally, then these people are provocateurs, right?
Yes
Does it mean I am a provocateur?
Tomorrows rally is very different from all the previous ones. This is for the sissy white collar internet hamsters, who battle on Facebook and VK. I had to represent their interests at the mayor's office. Besides Internet wars, they are extremely scared to get under the bats of Omon. They are extremely scared to be arrested.
What about those ten thousand that gathered on Chistye Prudy, didn't they march to Lubyanka?
The thing is out of those ten thousand that were there, one thousand went to Lubyanka, and they were the activists.
So they knew what they going for?
Yes. It was us, Solidarnost, Left Front, Natsbol of Limonov, There were no hamsters there, the hamsters ran away. About 1000 people went to Lubyanka, so 10% of the rally were the people who were politically motivated and 90% of the meeting were the vegetables who are outraged that they coudn't get laid.
So it is good that Yashin is in jail, and is not coming to Bolotnaya?
Well I wouldn't say that about my friend
But it would be more quiet
Of course I wouldn't do that. That he and Navalny are in jail means that.. And then there that scum Limonov, a provocateur, who along with Zakhar Prilepin want to declare a day of revolution.
But because there will be the scared penguins on the square, I think we should do everything so that they are not touched, otherwise they will turn away from us and say we used them as cannon fodder
This is the task of the Kremlin is to provoke them
Of course that's what they want
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Part 2 coming soon
http://fortruss.blogspot.no/2015/02/nemtsov-wire-taps-how-to-organize.html
Boris Nemtsov getting instructions at the American embassy in Moscow (video)January 17, 2015, Moscow, USA Embassy
Evgeniya, why did you come to the American Embassy?
Boris Efimovich, hello, could you tell us why did you come to the American embassy?
Nemtsov: To visit the ambassador
Why, do you want to ask him some questions?
Nemtsov: Yes, how did he become an ambassador
Hello, can we ask some questions?
Could you tell us, why did you come to the American Embassy?
By invitation
By whose invitation?
And who are you?
We are from the NTV channel
Why did you come here?
Is this questioning?
After the instructions, one hour later:
You are Surkov's propaganda
You are Surkov's propaganda
You are Surkov's propaganda
Kristina Rus:
Among the visitors: Boris Nemtsov, Ilya Ponomarev, Chirikova
Do you really want to know what Russians think about such opposition activists as Nemtsov? Yandex translate the comments under this video. In short it will sound like "prostitutes, traitors etc."
America has done more to marginalize Russian opposition then Putin could ever dream of.
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http://fortruss.blogspot.no/2015/03/boris-nemtsov-getting-instructions-at.html
Translated from Russian by J.Hawk"
Video recording of Nemtsov's murder released
The TVTs TV channel published surveillance camera video which captured the moment of Nemtsov's murder in the center of Moscow. One can see the car and the silhouettes of people.
We can see how Boris Nemtsov and Anna Duritskaya are walking on the bridge toward the Bolotnaya square. They are overtaken and obscured by a snow clearance vehicle with flashing lights. A second later another man runs out from behind the vehicle, gets into a car and leaves.
The snow clearance vehicle stops several meters from the location of the crime. Only one silhouette remains, apparently Nemtsov's acquaintance. Then she walks up to the drivers, and spends several minutes behind the snow clearing vehicle.
At the same time other pedestrians walk on the bridge. They walk past as if nothing had happened, while others stop briefly out of interest. One individual inspects the place of Nemtsov's death, then runs up to the snow clearing machine, next to which is the girl, then returns to the body. At 23:35 the first vehicle stopped here, and left several seconds later. The girl returned to the place of the crime, then two other individuals walked up to it. At 23:37 another vehicle drives by, abruptly stops, and drives in reverse to the site of the crime. It remains next to the crime scene for some time.
Police arrive at the crime scene at 23:42. We can see two individuals running away from under the bridge.
Investigators are considering all possible versions of Nemtsov's murder. However, Rossiyskaya Gazeta sources in the law enforcement say that they are most interested in the scenario in which Nemtsov was killed for personal reasons. In spite of the fact that Nemtsov was fired at no less than six times, not a single bullet struck his companion Anna Duritskaya.
J.Hawk's Comment: That is by far the most plausible explanation of Nemtsov's death. He was mixed up in all manner of shady, immoral, and possibly even illegal interpersonal and financial dealings. He had plenty of opportunity to make enemies for himself, and did not get along especially well with most of the so-called "Russian opposition." Once again, the fact he was shot at 6-8 times at point blank range, out of which only 4 shots hit, and moreover that his companion who was in perfect position to see who was shooting at Nemtsov was left alive and unharmed on the scene, suggests a personal animosity toward Nemtsov somehow related to this "relationship" (for lack of a better word--somehow I doubt the 55-year-old Nemtsov was going to marry the 23-year-old "actress-model) on the part of the shooter.
That the US government ordered or inspired the killing is implausible in the extreme. The fact that the USG will use this killing to political advantage certainly suggests cynical opportunism, but nothing more.
It is equally extremely implausible the killer was ordered or inspired by anyone within the Russian government.
For the sake of completeness, a third set of implausible theories (though here the motive is actually pretty evident) posits that Nemtsov was killed by someone within Russia's "war party" (whose representative or maybe even leader is none other than...Strelkov/Girkin) in order to provoke a harsh Western reaction that would in turn force the Russian government to adopt a harder line toward the West.
Still, in the end one has to keep in mind that the vast majority of "contract killings" in Russia have to do not with politics but with dirty financial dealings and/or the underworld. The alternative Anna Duritskaya angle is not that Nemtsov was shot by a jealous lover, but by Duritskaya's pimp.
http://fortruss.blogspot.no/2015/02/video-recording-of-nemtsovs-murder.htmlhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dd5_1425218087Truel UPDATED: Nemtsov wire taps: how to organize Russian Maidan on the phone. Part 1Russia. US NGO. Nemtsov. Turkish author Yasar Kemal dies at 92Sun, 01 Mar 2015 04:00:07 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8a0_1425200402
EuronewsYasar Kemal, one Turkey's best-known writers has died at the age of 92. He passed away in hospital in Istanbul following respiratory and organ failure.
Kemal's most celebrated work was the book 'Memed, My Hawk', published in 1955, a tale of a bandit hero to takes revenge on a cruel overlord.
His works often chronicled the lives of the downtrodden, and have been translated in to 40 languages. He was the country's first writer to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Kemal was an ethnic Kurd. He was born in southeastern Turkey just weeks before the modern republic was founded after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
His birthplace on the fertile Cukurova plain, was often the setting for his stories. He once said that 'no writer can be a great novelist without their own Cukurova'.
He was five years old when he witnessed his father's death at the hands of an orphan the family had adopted, and he drew on the experience for his novel 'Salman the Solitary'.
He was given a suspended sentence in 1995 on charges related to his support for Kurdish dissidents.
He finished his final novel in 2012.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8a0_1425200402EuronewsTurkish author Yasar Kemal dies at 92EuronewsJapan's Master Plan to Defeat China in a WarSat, 28 Feb 2015 18:48:54 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4f7_1425165979
Detroit Iron
Kyle Mizokami February 28, 2015
In recent years, significant attention has been paid to the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). China's defense budget, which has increased ten fold in the last twenty five years, has funded the construction of a modern, ocean-going navy. This includes the recently fielded aircraft carrier,Liaoning, as well as fleets of destroyers, frigates, corvettes, replenishment ships, and amphibious assault ships.
The PLAN is indeed an impressive force, but local geography will create challenges during wartime. Japan controls a string of islands that form the Miyako Strait, which Chinese naval forces must transit to enter the western Pacific. Properly fortified, the Japanese-held Ryukyu Islands could conceivably block passage of the Strait altogether.
The Ryukyus have been used to defend Japan before. Okinawa, the gateway to the Home Islands, was fortified by Japan during World War II and then invaded by the Allies. The southern half of the chain, the Sakashima Islands, were used as staging areas for kamikaze fighters during the Battle of Okinawa.
Japan, which spends roughly a quarter as much on defense as China, could use the Ryukyus to execute an Anti-Access, Area Denial (A2/AD) plan in the Miyako Strait. Like any good A2/AD strategy, such a plan in the Strait would require a fraction of the spending necessary to overcome it.
The PLAN has three fleet commands. The North Sea Fleet, based in Qingdao, is oriented towards the Yellow Sea and beyond while the East Sea Fleet, based in Ningbo, is oriented toward the East China Sea and beyond.
Together, the North and East Sea Fleets field 16 destroyers, 32 frigates, all five of China's nuclear attack submarines, and around 40 diesel electric submarines of varying ages. Backing this up would be aircraft of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), the People's Liberation Army Navy Air Force and the conventionally armed ballistic missiles of the Second Artillery Corps.
The most direct route for both fleets is the Miyako Strait, a gateway formed by Japan's Sakishima Islands. A gap 160 miles wide between Miyako Island and the island of Okinawa provides access to the open Pacific and beyond. Chinese naval task forces have recently made a habit of passing through the strait.
It's difficult to accurately predict a conflict between China and Japan, but in many scenarios China will have to force the Miyako Strait. Japan thus has the advantage of preparing the battlefield, as well as being able to deploy a multi-layered network of sensors and weapons.
The radar network consisting of AN/TPY-2 radars would stand guard against ballistic missile attacks by the Second Artillery Corps. This would be backed up by the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force's (MSDF) BMD-capable cruisers and destroyers, of which there are currently four. Patriot PAC-2 and PAC-3 interceptors would provide point defense against aircraft and ballistic missiles, respectively.
The three RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned surveillance aircraft Japan is reportedly procuring can conduct ocean surveillance, shadowing PLAN ships and providing real-time targeting information to Japan's joint forces commander. They can also monitor the Chinese mainland, tracking activity at airfields, ports, missile bases and other military facilities.
Finally, although not currently in operation, Japan could deploy an array of hydrophones across the Strait similar to the SOSUS network that covered the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom gap during the Cold War. The system would enable Japan to monitor Chinese submarines in peacetime, and efficiently eliminate them during wartime.
The Japanese commander charged with defense of the Ryukyus would take the information from aerial, land, sea and subsea sensors and piece together a coherent picture of the battlefield. The commander could then use this intelligence to preserve his own forces while striking at Chinese forces where they are weak, both technically and professionally.
Japan's fleet of 16 submarines, in the process of being increased to 22, will be the most effective active defense. The JMSDF submarine fleet, composed of the newer Soryu and older Oyashio -class diesel electric submarines, is one of the most professional and technologically advanced in the world. The idea would be to direct Japan's strength in submarine warfare against Chinese weaknesses in anti-submarine warfare (ASW).
Assuming a wartime surge of 11 JMSDF submarines, with a handful to watch the northern frontier with Russia, Japan could form a picket of eight submarines. Operating on a front from Taiwan to the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, the Chinese Navy would need to anticipate an average of one Japanese submarine every 82 miles, an unpleasant prospect.
Aircraft will also play a key role, and the aircraft of the Japan Air Self Defense Force (ASDF) and MSDF would also contribute heavily to the fight. Operating from Okinawa and Kyushu, Japan's fleet of E-767 and E-2D early warning aircraft would detect enemy aircraft and direct the air battle. F-15J fighters would be vectored to intercept Chinese fighter sweeps. The F-15Js would also be tasked with destroying China's airborne early warning and tanker aircraft, seriously degrading the People's Liberation Army Air Force's ability to operate over Japanese territory.
Japanese airfield space supporting the Ryukyus is limited, and a priority would be placed on F-15Js and their air superiority capability. Backing them up from bases farther away on mainland Japan would be the JASDF's F-2 fighters , recently upgraded to carry medium range AAM-4B radar-guided air to air missiles. The F-2s could also conduct anti-ship missions with Type 93 anti-ship missiles, likely in conjunction with attacks from submarines and surface ships.
The MSDF's patrol aircraft, the new Kawasaki P-1 and the older P-3C Orion will conduct reconnaissance and hunt Chinese submarines. Japan has over 90 P-3Cs and a handful of P-1s.
In the event of war, the MSDF would organize at least two surface task forces centered around its Hyuga and Izumo class helicopter carriers. Each carrier will be equipped with at least six anti-submarine warfare helicopters, allowing it to hunt Chinese submarines over a wide area. Each would be protected by an Aegis destroyer of the Kongo or Atago classes. Other task forces would be centered around an Aegis destroyer and charged with providing area defense against conventionally armed ballistic missiles.
To support the A2/AD plan, Japan could organize a fleet of "street fighters", the 200-ton guided missile patrol boats of the Hayabusa class. The six Hayabusa class ships are each armed with four SSM-1B anti-ship missiles, roughly equivalent to the American Harpoon missile, and are capable of speeds of up to 46 knots. The Hayabusas could mount hit and run attacks on Chinese ships, hiding out among the Sakishima Islands between raids.
Finally, Type-88 land-based anti-ship missiles will keep Chinese forces at bay, preventing landings on the islands of Miyakojima, Ishigakijima, and even Okinawa. Not only will these missiles protect populated islands, they will shape the battlefield, creating zones where Chinese ships will have to worry about multiple threats. A mobile system, the Type 88 would be a difficult threat for China to neutralize.
Japan has several batteries of Type 88-missiles , which mount six missiles per transporter truck. The Type-88 has a range of nearly 100 miles, meaning that missiles mounted on Miyakojima and Okinawa would overlap in range, completely covering the strait. Theoretically, there are enough populated islands to target Chinese ships with land-based anti-ship missiles all the way from Taiwan to Kyushu. Notably, in recent years Japan has held exercises that utilized Type-88 missiles near the Strait.
It's worth noting that Joint operations will be critical for any JSDF A2/AD campaign. In the past, Japanese military forces have been notoriously parochial, duplicating capability, withholding intelligence from other branches and preventing effective unity of command. In our scenario, the joint forces commander will be directing air, land and sea forces toward a common goal.
In that regard, the joint forces commander will need to be able to communicate with his forces by secure means. Without the ability to receive information and pass orders over vast distances, the Japanese defense would proceed in piecemeal and be defeated in such. Adopting a modern digital communications system like the U.S. standard Link 16 will help ensure communications even in the face of Chinese electronic jamming.
Nonetheless, most of the systems to support this strategy are already in place. Others, such as a SOSUS network for the Ryukyus, secure digital communications, and joint operations proficiency are easily attainable and not terribly expensive. Still other improvements, such as the XASM-3 hypersonic anti-ship missile, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and more Aegis destroyers are already on the way.
Japan's A2/AD plan would be the strategic equivalent ofaikido, the Japanese martial art that emphasizes self defense.Aikido emphasizes turning the enemy's strength and momentum against himself. Similarly, the SDF would draw the enemy out into the Ryukyus, away from its land-based power, where it could be defeated. Such a strategy is more in tune with the Japanese public's pacifist tendencies and an easier sell politically.
Japan cannot hope to match China's defense spending. Although Japan has raised defense spending two years in a row, the increases have been modest and in line with Japan's mediocre economic performance. An A2/AD strategy is an economical way to deter China in peacetime and defeat it in wartime.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/japans-master-plan-defeat-china-war-12338?page=3http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4f7_1425165979Detroit IronJapan's Master Plan to Defeat China in a WarPeople's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), JDFPanic in Ukraine Over Food, Empty Stores and Protests; Strategic Food Reserve EmptySat, 28 Feb 2015 00:32:32 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a1d_1425101457
Mad_GeraldPanic in Ukraine Over Food, Empty Stores and Protests; Strategic Food Reserve Empty
Here's a brief update from "Ellen" who lives in Lviv, a city in Western Ukraine.
Hello Mish
We have quite a panic over the collapse of currency. People buy any food
product that can be stored. Everyone wants to rid of Hryvnia. We
haven't seen anything like this since 1991 when the Soviet Union
collapsed. Stores are empty.
It is hard to say what exchange rate this days, somewhere between 34 and 42
There were riots in downtown today. A group of protesters was beaten up
by police. They marched through downtown and gave a last warning to
government officials. Next time they said they will shoot some
officials.
Ukraine is on a brink, but the West is not in a hurry to give us money.
Perhaps they want something. Maybe they know the money will end up with
corrupt officials who will steal it.
Either way, the few billion dollars they promised in March won't save our economy, not after this panic started.
Best wishes
Ellen
Strategic Food Reserve Empty
A curious thing happened today. To quiet protests over food, president
Petro Poroshenko ordered the minister of the food reserve to fill the
shelves of stores with flour, sugar, canned meat, and buckwheat from the
reserve.
Well guess what? There was no food in the reserve. It has either been
looted (like the vanishing gold), or it was fed to the army.
Here is a nice translation from Russian by J. Hawk: Ukraine's Strategic Food Reserve...Runs Out Of Food .
Ukrainian food prices are rising at a rate faster than in the '90s. But
the Yatsenyuk government is still blaming the situation on the ignorance
of the population and speculation by supermarket chains.
They used to blame currency exchangers, now they are blaming supermarket
directors. However, you can't feed the people with such tales.
The government's "economy block" hastily summoned the director of the
Ukrainian State Reserve Vladimir Zhukov. They demanded that he open the
storehouses and fill the shelves with flour, sugar, canned meat, and
buckwheat from its stores. In response the keeper of Motherland's
strategic stores revealed a terrible military secret to Yatsenyuk and
Poroshenko: the storehouses are empty.
It would seem Ukraine's Black Hour is here.
J.Hawk's Comment: There indeed were earlier reports that the strategic
reserve was being "unsealed" to support military operations on the
Donbass. The army has to eat, after all, and maintaining several tens of
thousands of soldiers for nearly a year is likely to make a dent. The
second factor was the junta's desperate need to earn hard currency to
somehow plug up the many budget holes opened up by its adoption of
"European Choice" neoliberal economic policies. Therefore anything that
could be sold, was sold, including Mariupol's huge grain reserves.
Finally, there's the small matter of corruption. One gets the impression
Ukraine is a giant organized style "bust-out" operation, whose
objective is to stash as much loot in foreign accounts and then leave
the mess for someone else to clean up. To say that the Kiev junta has
some kind of a strategy would be giving them entirely too much credit.
It's a collection of loosely coordinated individuals pursuing their own
venal agendas and living hand-to-mouth, without any thought given to
Ukraine's long-term prospects.
Here is a link to the original article that J. Hawk translated: Ukraine State Reserve Doesn't Even Have Buckwheat. Everything was Stolen.
Buckwheat is a Russian staple. I believe, "out of buckwheat" would be the equivalent of Japan being out of rice.
Mish note: One person accused me of bias over the word "junta". I did
not choose the word. I quoted someone, just as I quote Colonel Cassad.
In context, it certainly appears J. Hawk went out of his way to not just
translate, but to mention the possibility reserves were unsealed to
feed the army.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Panic in Ukraine Over Food, Empty Stores and Protests; Strategic Food Reserve Empty
Posted by Michael Shedlock at 8:27 PM
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.ca/2015/02/panic-in-ukraine-over-food-empty-stores.htmlhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a1d_1425101457Mad_GeraldPanic in Ukraine Over Food, Empty Stores and Protests; Strategic Food Reserve EmptyukraineMcCain : I'm ashamed of my country cause it wouldn't give weapons to UkraineFri, 27 Feb 2015 16:19:03 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=034_1425071788
mrwaksalot
Serious passions flared up in Washington, DC, around the cooperation with Ukraine. It seems after all, Ukraine is no where near the US but very large and influential group of
American parliamentarians concern about nothing these days but the issues of lethal weapons supply to Kiev
-- We adhere to the view that lethal military assistance can't be delivered to Ukraine fast enough to change the military balance of forces - said on Thursday the head of the parliamentary hearings
Intelligence Agency US Department of Defense (DOD), Lieutenant-General Stuart Vincent and repeated, probably for those who do not understood the first time. - Unable to deliver weapons fast enough to change the situation.
But the general clearly didn't realize that in the presence of Senator John McCain it should be repeated at least once more even after the addition of a separate explanation for slowpokes. And for the third time his thesis was not repeated and McCain did not fail to take advantage of it.-- This is ridiculous. US could deliver weapons to Ukraine tomorrow. Especially, when we have transport cargo aircraft there, for such cases - McCain said proudly, then triumphantly and mockingly said that the head of the DOD was "absolutely illogical."
Meanwhile, Stewart clearly had in mind not just the transport of weapons delivery, but also commission of their service into the Armed Forces of Ukraine, preparation and training of local staff to the use of weapons and many other nuances associated with the supply of equipment, weapons and ammunition. Which is clearly not comprehended by the brain of the American 78-year-old senator. Meanwhile, what happens to supply Ukraine lethal weapons now, even in Kiev hardly anyone knows. On Friday, Deputy Secretary of Defense Council of Ukraine Oleg Gladkovsky said that Kiev has already received lethal weapons from othercountries.
- We work with the world ... Where there is no hype, where there is no impact that we,unfortunately, are creating, from these countries, we geta lethal weapon - he said, but refused to disclose details of deliveries.
And just a couple of hours later, the official representative of the General Staff Vladislav Seleznev denied Gladkovsky's statement, stressing that from abroad Kiev currently receives only non-lethal weapons.
Imagine foreign lawmaker in US on anti-government rally egging on violant protesters calling them to overthrow US president , how would US government react and what would McCain call that personhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=034_1425071788mrwaksalotMcCain : I'm ashamed of my country cause it wouldn't give weapons to Ukrainemccain,ukraineUkraine's currency is totally collapsing: Welcome to EU, Ukraine. You asked for this, and now you see it. Now you can &quot;enjoy&quot; it!Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:31:35 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d3c_1424977923
TruelUkraine To Halt Currency Trading Again Any Minute
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/26/2015 10:41 -0500
With Prime Minister Yatsenyuk putting his foot down and squeezing the central bank to lift capital controls, Ukraine's currency is totally collapsing this morning. Up over 5 handles to a fresh record low of 33.75/USD, we suspect currency trading will be halted any minute . While we discussed the endgame for Ukraine last night, on the street, things are dire with ATM lines, shelves emptied, and local currency exchanges marking up levels dramatically more than the 'official' rates...
The 'independent' Central Bank halted currency trading, and then the government screamed ...
"I learned this morning on the Internet that the National Bank of Ukraine has, as usual on its own without any sort of consultations, made the decision to close the interbank currency market, which will absolutely not add to the stability of the national currency that the national bank is responsible for. This situation has a very complex and negative influence on the country's economy," Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said.
And it was unhalted... and this happened... UAH collapsed...
As Colonel Cassad report,
Mariupol exchangers Today the dollar has broken another record. Buy 1 dollar for 44 hryvnia can sell for 32 hryvnia, according to the city's website 0629.com.
Related to this is a panic in the city - in many shops in the city are buying cereals, flour, sugar. By the way, the price of sugar already reached 18 hryvnia per kilogram. "Soon people will buy cookies to drink tea without sugar," - joked seller.
broke the record and the cost of a liter of gasoline - more than 26 hryvnia per liter of A-95.
According to experts, now the price rise for imported goods and products. For example, the city has increased dramatically the cost of a kilogram of herring - up to 60 hryvnia. For the same money you can buy a kilo of meat.
It is noteworthy that the dollar in Kiev a little different - there you can buy a dollar for 36 hryvnia, but also to sell for 32 hryvnia. According to the workers exchangers, such a situation has developed in Mariupol for the area ATO.
with lines at the ATMs
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-26/ukraine-halt-currency-trading-again-any-minute
"The Fall of the Hryvnya is Our Financial Ilovaysk"--Kiev nerves start to crack
Rada Deputy Sergey Kaplin
The Fall of the Hryvnya is Our Financial Ilovaysk
By Sergey Kaplin
Translated from Russian by J.Hawk
The entire country is now a financial cauldron, we are surrounded by the infantility and self-importance of the National Bank, government, and power ministries. Those who took bribes in dollars are the winners, while those who paid their last hryvnyas in taxes are the losers. There are two reasons for this: Putin and Gontareva.
Every cauldron, starting with Ilovaysk, was the result of a strategic miscalculation. The reasons are simple: ministers are not ministers, military commanders are not military commanders, but mere scum, children who think that the Motherland is a board game in which one can always throw the dice one more time.
They were not born and destined to be the elite, this cheap not-quite-government which assembled 10km from the Maidan and watched the revolution from coffee houses, from the offices of Arbuzov and Klyuyev, even Azarov. They are not willing to give even their attention, let alone their lives, for the lives of ordinary people.
Mr. President, show them the door! Adopt strict and consistent personnel policies! Clan people are always worse than the obsessed and the professionals, don't allow the government to be paralyzed! They already lost your Rada campaign for you, they are losing the war for you, they have buried the hryvnya, what's next? You are next! What's next is your devaluation and your defeat and the collapse of the State!
God forbid!
What is to be done about the hryvnya?
First, the truth concerning what happened. There are two reasons, Gontareva and Putin. The second caused a crisis in the balance of payments: there is no coal, and we have to pay for it with hard currency, but there is no more hard currency because its main source was the Donbass and associated industries in the South. All assets have been expended to support the army, and we are not developing the internal market. Then there's Yatsenyuk and the failure of his reforms: we are living only thanks to imports.
Then, Gontareva...She gave out financing to anyone and everyone, saved billionaires and multi-millionnaires, but her second crime was that she allowed them to use that money to play games on currency markets: they borrowed hryvnya at 20% and waited until it ballooned to 200. The third crime was that she allowed hard currency to desert to the West through fictitious import contracts. The fourth crime was that she dropped the hryvnya in the search for a more balanced exchange rate under the conditions of wartime-which is nonsense.
The fifth crime is that she gave birth to a monster through her lack of activity, which is the black market which sees a turnover of two billion a day. Neither Yatsenyuk nor the Rada said a word about it. While Ukraine's "population" grew richer with every day!
What is to be done?
First, the Rada must investigate hyperspeculation and non-professionalism. Prison, prison, prison! The head of the NBU must be immediately fired, and the President and the Prime Minister must take the reins of control into their own hands. Both of them are competent financiers with the necessary political authority and a mandate to conduct surgery on the hryvnya.
Secondly, establish an absolute military discipline over refinancing, those banks which need them "for balancing" ought to surrender their vault keys to the state, those who want to remain banks ought to start working like banks and not as currency trading kiosks on a giant scale.
Thirdly, create an inter-agency commission to control the currency market: Finance Ministry, Customs, Tax Policy, Ministry of Economy, NBU, SBU, Prosecutor's General Office, MVD. Every import contract must be reviewed.
Fourthly, limit, destroy, burn out with white-hot iron currency speculation by banks using refinancing. Everything that was stolen must be returned even if you have to use administrative resources and political influence.
Fifth, immediately convene the Rada to strengthen the criminalization of speculation and black market activity, up to the "firing squad" or the ban to do anything financial for 50 years.
Next to last, strictly regulate imports, allowing only that which is absolutely necessary to ordinary people. It's a temporary stabilizing measure.
Last, form a strategy for redressing the balance of payments, mainly by increasing exports which would require a couple of years. Pay particular attention to the Military Industrial Complex, which will both help the army and will provide an influx of hard currency which will anchor the course of the hryvnya.
For God's sake, try at least one of those measures!
Do it immediately!
J.Hawk's Comment: None of these measures are even remotely plausible. Ironically, the Yanukovych government was potentially better prepared to deal with a crisis like that due to his successful centralization of executive authority which, ironically enough, the Maidan protested against. There are too many vested interests to be overcome, except maybe through the introduction of a totalitarian regime--which, come to think of it, just might be right around the corner.
The one thing that the writer, a Rada Deputy from the UDAR Party, does not mention is...improving relations with Russia. He is wrong to blame Putin for Ukraine's woes--they are entirely self-inflicted, and they were inflicted by Ukraine's original cauldron that was the Maidan. It was obvious from the outset that any policy of using Russophobia as a rallying cry for the new regime would quickly become a very costly one economically, not only because it would antagonize Russia, but because it also threatened to alienate big swaths of the country, like the Donbass, which Kaplin acknowledges was Ukraine's main source of hard currency.
But the junta cannot reverse course now. Too many things were said, too many people killed, and none of those things can be undone.
http://fortruss.blogspot.no/2015/02/the-fall-of-hryvnya-is-our-financial.html
26th February 2015, city Kiev, failed state Ukraine
Today in the Kiev near building of city administration was 3rd protest against economical politic of city authorities. Protesters blocked traffic and demanded the resignation of Klitschko. Vitaliy Klitschko told to the journalists that these protesters are terrorists.
Near building of Kiev City State Administration has launched a campaign "March of white handkerchiefs." Activists are protesting against the increase of tickets prices in public transport. Protesters almost completely blocked vehicular traffic on str. Kreschatik near the building of the KSCA. At the same time near the mayor's office has launched a campaign, which involves about a thousand people. People holding flags with the inscription "Peace, justice." They demanded the resignation of Vitaliy Klitschko, the mayor of Kiev.
Participants of the action "March of white handkerchiefs" were from two categories of people: the vast majority - pensioners, about 100 people - young people aged between 14 and 18 years.
About 30 cars of protesters with yellow flags "Peace, Justice" blocked traffic, leaving open only one lane on the road. At the same time they open the hood, as if their cars were broken.
Kiev mayor Vitaly Klitschko has compared these protests and block of road traffic in front of the Kiev City State Administration to the terrorist attacks in Kharkov and Odessa.
"They are people who aren't interested in returning to peaceful life in Ukraine, who aren't interested in the success of our state, so they don't abandon their attempts to undermine the situation not only in the East of Ukraine, but also in other cities. The terrorist attack in Kharkov, explosions in Odessa, blocking traffic in the capital and other provocation aimed at one thing - to destabilize the country, "- said Klitschko.
Independent journalists report that part of people protested today for money, 50 UAN or 1,5 USD earned part of protesters today. I want to remind that in Maidan people got about 200 UAN or 24 USD as minimal payment for day of protest. Because economical situation became much worse, protesters cost less than before.
Sources, Kiev junta media
http://kievvlast.com.ua/.../pod_kgga_akcija_protesta_uchastni...
http://kievvlast.com.ua/.../klichko_provel_analogiju_mezhdu_b...
Maksim Ravreba, independent journalist
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=914374028612678&amp;set=a.188373874546034.60207.100001202696157&amp;type=1&amp;theater
https://www.facebook.com/TruthfromUkraine
"We are losing"--Maidan die-hard toys with the idea of military dictatorship
2/26/2015
We are losing
By Yuriy Kasyanov
Translated from Russian by J.Hawk
Let's speak openly. We are losing the war. The string of battlefield defeats, punctuated by the so-called "peace agreements" demonstrates the political powerlessness of the government and the total inadequacy of the military high command. Let's count. The agreement to let Girkin from Slavyansk, the destruction of our forces in the border sector D, Ilovaysk, the retreat from Lugansk airport, the loss of Novoazovsk, 32nd and 32st checkpoints, the defeat at Donetsk Airport, Debaltsevo...It's a far from complete list of our failures. The list of victorious lies is even longer: we tend to call our defeats victories, and to blame the Kremlin for all the failures. If the retreat cannot be prevented then it has to be renamed, by calling it a "planned withdrawal" with subsequent military decorations and commemorative photos. The treacherous Putin can serve as an alibi personal cowardice and incompetence. Our losses are under-reported by a wide margin. We are short of equipment, artillery ammunition is nearly all gone; we can't expect military aid from the glorious Western democracies. We can see the specter of total military catastrophe, the loss of even greater territories, an economic collapse, and the break-up of the state system of governance.
We are losing. We are losing because we are fighting an enemy which we do not want to defeat. The enemy is not the homegrown separatists, not Russian occupiers, and not even the entire "Russian world" of Putin. We are our own enemy number one: our cowardly short-sighted leaders and clumsy commanders; our new/old Rada, incapable of accepting the responsibility for the country; the mindless corruption which had become a part of our lives; our serf worldview which expects favors from a good master.
We do have enlightened minds, clean hands, and burning hearts. Nearly all of them are at the front. In general brains work better at war; life becomes more understandable and people show their true nature. Here you are valued by your deeds and not by your words; no rank, expensive equipment, or fashionable assault rifle are worth anything if the person is a craven coward. Here they fight well enough, to the extent that our GenStaff does not interfere; they consider each peace agreement the prelude to an even bigger war, and they know what needs to be done for that victory.
It's different behind the front. Some are praying for the president, others curse him. While cursing, they find themselves a new icon on the blue screen, and pray to it. Behind the front, people put their hopes in the West, sanctions, and military aid. They consider all volunteers heroes, and the prominent battalion commanders Napoleons. Behind the front they don't want to fight and don't like bad news. In the battle between the truth about the war and the TV, the latter wins. When the reality of war penetrates mass consciousness, the citizens fall into cognitive dissonance with the propaganda inculcated earlier. It may end with a blind rebellion-an assault on the presidential administration, a siege of the GenStaff, the burning of the Rada, or the destruction of other foundations of the state which would only make our northern neighbor happy.
The northern neighbor wants Ukraine. Putin dreams of rebuilding the USSR. The majority of Russia's population wants the same thing. Chauvinism is reaching unheard-of heights, military hysteria is growing, peaceful inhabitants of affluent Russian cities are ready to come to kill us. Putin is prepared to launch a direct aggression. The West and the US will not fight for us. Kremlin had won a convincing victory in the war of nerves against the entire civilized world: Ukraine was surrendered to Putin like Czechoslovakia to Hitler. We are losing. We are, in fact, alone, one on one with a cruel enemy. But we want to win. What is to be done? Fight in the rear areas and fight at war. Don't rebel but forcefully change the system. Change yourselves. Build a new army. Advance talented combat commanders. Develop the military-industrial complex.
It's too early to give up. The struggle will be a long one...We'll talk about winning in the next article.
What is to be done?
What is to be done when the country is facing aggression, but no war has been declared? What to do, when the president shakes hands with the main enemy? How to fight, when GenStaff only creates obstacles, and plans defeat after defeat? What to hope for, if the West has chickened out and does not help? Where to find a fulcrum, when the majority of the country does not know and does not want to know the truth about the war? How to win?
We have to admit we are at war. Don't declare war on Russia, but don't negotiate with the aggressor, in hopes for a mythical peace. One has to fight for real. The work of state agencies, the entire economy, societal life, everything has to be oriented toward victory.
Victory is the achievement of the ultimate objective of the war. The objectives are understood and just: reestablishment of territorial integrity, reestablishment of the Constitution and the rule of law on the entire territory of the country, punishment of collaborators, criminals, and killers.
Those are the national objectives, and not the "peace agreements" which should animate all of our ideas and deeds. One must not compromise with enemies of Ukraine, the state, and the people. The more consistent we are in pursuing our goals, the faster and with fewer casualties will our victory arrive.
The West will not support us, or it will support us conditionally. NATO troops will not defend us, the US will not step in. Europe is too fat and peaceful, and is not ready to sacrifice for Ukraine. Obama is not Reagan or Bush, he is a weak president. We cannot expect military aid, serious arms supplies, or even full diplomatic support. The Old World is too dependent on Russian energy, and the US president is very afraid of the Kremlin midget with the nuclear button.
We can count only on our own strength. This awareness will help us mobilize and win.
The government should be up to the challenge, namely, the war. It's obvious our president is no commander-in-chief. Not a warrior. We need a Ben Gurion, who tore Israel out of centuries of non-existence, a Churchill who could mobilize the nation for a national struggle against fascism, our Vaclav Havel or Lech Walesa. We have none. (Timoshenko, Gritsenko, Lyashko, and Tyagnibok don't count). The country has no national leader, therefore all appeals for a "Third Maidan" are senseless and harmful. We'll get a pig in a poke or, worse, we'll get open traitors or marginal. Any destabilization of the country will be destructive to Ukrainian statehood, and will totally discredit the national idea.
We need to influence the government. We need to insist. We need to argue. Through authoritative national representatives. Through the media. By meetings and demonstrations. Lawfully, but forcefully.
Incidentally, the president is only part of the government. We are de jure a parliamentary-presidential republic. We need to demand action from our deputies. Meet with your deputies. Picket the Rada, organize meetings and demonstrations. This is a perfectly normal means of influencing the government in a civilized society.
But no rebellions or coups. Unless we want to bury Ukraine. Our task is to force the president and parliament to adopt a range of important personnel and legislative decisions which will bring effective managers into positions of authority over the country's defense and untie their hands.
First of all, we need to replace the military high command which has already established its inadequacy. In the army, as the saying goes, "the fish rots from the head"-all the problems, victories, and defeats are created from above. We fight in accordance with the quality of our leadership. We fight better when we ignore the leaders.
It's stupid to blame soldiers and officers in their lack of preparedness, their inability to use equipment and weapons, in unwillingness to fight, in cowardice. It's stupid, because commanders are responsible for the cadre selection and for training. The soldier is only allowed to take initiative by dying in battle.
The role of personality in the army and at war is very high. Military history is the history of war leaders. Everything depends on who commands. We're still yet to see any victories, and the long list of defeats is the responsibility of the president, the GenStaff chief. The Minister of Defense has the role of ensuring the logistical support of the military. The National Defense Council is an advisory institution. The Rada committee on defense has no authority whatsoever, therefore it's completely ignored. Only the president and the GenStaff chief are truly responsible for the war. To be more specific, only the president is responsible, because Muzhenko is the creature and subordinate of the president.
Removing Muzhenko should be simple. The problem is in replacing him. There are officers at the front or in the GenStaff who are talented and who can lead the army to victory (Semenchenko, Melnichuk, Gritsenko, and Lyashko don't count). But will the president choose the best one, or at least one of the glorious pantheon of experienced combat commanders? What will he take into account, other than personal loyalty?
The new GenStaff chief, should one appear, ought to receive a carte blanche from the president and Rada to wage the war. It means that the people, the Rada, the government, and the President will adopt the idea of preserving Ukraine as the national idea, and will entrust its implementation through military means to the new command. The new command should not have its hands tied by pseudo-piece with occupiers and bandits.
The army ought not to languish on the perimeter of the occupied zone while the enemy is preparing new offensives and cauldrons. One should not merely react to attacks after the fact, but attempt to prevent them. The army ought to be constantly on the move, quickly and effectively. Plan offensive operations, destroy occupier basis and march columns as soon as they cross the borders of Ukraine.
The tragedy of Debaltsevo was that after the "peace" agreement the command undertook no measures, except for unsuccessful attempts to create a "corridor". The enemy was counting on that, and carried out a regrouping which included the withdrawal of forces from other sectors of the front. At that time we could have easily liberated Pervomaysk and Gorlovka which were practically abandoned. We could have created a corridor to Debaltsevo from Krymskoye through Fruze and Stakhanov, attacking from the rear and surrounding the enemy forces near Bakhmutka. None of that was attempted. We strictly abided by the "ceasefire" while the enemy destroyed our forces at Debaltsevo...
We can win, return our lands, and defend Ukraine only by attacking. It must be understood and implemented. It must become our military doctrine in the east. We must place talented commanders at the head of the army and give them real authority. We must reorganize the army and the front. We must act. We have very little time left. The enemy is mustering his forces. The real war will begin soon.
J.Hawk's Comment: The Ukrainian internet is positively overflowing with the "Do Something!" genre of political analysis which, alas, tends to be rather divorced from reality. Because if eternal conflict with Novorossia and Russia is the dogma on which the post-Maidan Ukraine is founded, then any advice rendered on the basis of such assumptions is bound to belong to the realm of fantasy . This, too, is a highly unrealistic set of proposals. What, exactly, has kept Poroshenko from doing any of these things since he became president? We can safely assume nothing Kasyanov wants will come to pass.
Which brings us to the next question: then what? Kasyanov comes very, very close to arguing in favor of a military dictatorship, both in his depiction of the front as the repository of Ukraine's real patriots who know how to get things done (not unlike the Frontsoldaten who would fix Germany once they came to power in the 1930s...) and in his call for the next GenStaff chief to have virtually unlimited authority. Should Poroshenko fail to deliver the hoped-for victory, might Kasyanov not place his hopes in a military strongman next?
http://fortruss.blogspot.no/2015/02/we-are-losing-maidan-die-Lvov Professor Faces Persecution for Supporting Novorossia
2/24/2015
They are killing me
By Olga Zagulskaya
Translated from Russian by J.Hawk
The two weeks of persecution have had their effect. Now I am suffering from hypertension. Yet another act of psychological torture had its intended effect. When I was going to work, I was warned that the students are preparing a boycott. Young people easily agreed to attack a person who always acted on the principle "I'll give children my heart." They were set upon me by the "intelligentsia" of Miroslav Popovich, Yuriy Vinnichuk ,and Otar Dovzhenko. At least three SBU men were circling around me, which means it's not a purely student event.
Journalists targeted me even earlier. In response to my sincere expression of beliefs and their sources, they titled their articles "Lvov National University professor openly supports terrorists," in other words, without any pangs of conscience they accused me of violating the Criminal Code.
I asked them not to publish their materials in those issues which contain the TV guide, since my 77-year-old mother reads them, and she's ill. Why cause her the stress? But that's exactly what they did, they even published a photo of me. When my mother went to church on Sunday, they showed them those newspapers. Even during the Stalin era there was a saying that children are not responsible for their parents. But the perpetrators of the so-called "dignity revolution" don't know how to act in a humane manner.
Journalists from the TV channel 24 were invited to the event, so as to make my suffering even more public. The dean called me to ask why I wasn't in class. My absence was noted and witnessed probably for the first time in the modern history of the department. I, someone who has not taken even sick leave the whole time I was at the university, am about to be fired for absenteeism. So as to avoid any legal proceedings. Only three years before retirement.
At one point I felt so dizzy that I could no longer stand. I sat for a little while and went to the doctor. He performed all the necessary procedures, and now I am in treatment, possibly for a long time. All because I am not indifferent to what is happening in my Motherland and to the fates of people, because I have my own understanding of events, my own position, and which I express in public. But, as Taras Shevchenko once said: I incur punishment, I suffer, but I do not repent!
J.Hawk's Comment: Olga Zagulskaya's "crime" was to criticize the Kiev authorities on her blog for the war on the people of Donbass, including naming them as the responsible party for the rocket bombardment of Mariupol. I doubt we'll see a "Je suis Zagulskaya" movement in Europe any time soon. Freedom of speech is not meant for people like her.
http://fortruss.blogspot.no/2015/02/lvov-professor-faces-persecution-for.html Google Auto-Complete Reveals the Truth About Ukraine
2/25/2015
Google Auto-Complete Reveals the Truth About Ukraine
Posted on Facebook by Baron Subbota
Translated from Ukrainian by J.Hawk
"Which illnesses
Which illnesses make you exempt from military service
Which illnesses make you exempt from ATO
Which illnesses make you exempt from mobilization
Which illnesses disqualify you
Which illnesses classify as disabilities"
J.Hawk's Comment: One has to keep in mind that the junta's support is actually very limited. The "true believers" are noisy and well organized (and now also well-armed...), but they are a tiny minority of Ukraine's population. We can already see how many Ukrainians voted with their feet to avoid being sent to fight Novorossia. Many more are "dissidents in place," waiting for an opportune moment to let their beliefs known. The example of Professor Zagulskaya shows that even in Lvov there a normal and brave people who reject fascism.
http://fortruss.blogspot.no/2015/02/google-auto-complete-reveals-truth.html
You lose because you're a criminal illegitimate dictatorship that has bombed Novorussia, are chasing the free press from the country, killing every voter who do not like the dictatorship, and you give your country away to US. Therefore you lose.
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Baldyoldgit2/26/2015
We are losing
By Yuriy Kasyanov
Translated from Russian by J.Hawk
Let's speak openly. We are losing the war. The string of
battlefield defeats, punctuated by the so-called "peace agreements"
demonstrates the political powerlessness of the government and the total
inadequacy of the military high command. Let's count. The agreement to let
Girkin from Slavyansk, the destruction of our forces in the
border sector D, Ilovaysk, the retreat from Lugansk airport, the loss of
Novoazovsk, 32nd and 32st checkpoints, the defeat at Donetsk
Airport, Debaltsevo...It's a far from complete list of our failures. The list of
victorious lies is even longer: we tend to call our defeats victories, and to
blame the Kremlin for all the failures. If the retreat cannot be prevented then
it has to be renamed, by calling it a "planned withdrawal" with subsequent
military decorations and commemorative photos. The treacherous Putin can serve
as an alibi personal cowardice and incompetence. Our losses are under-reported
by a wide margin. We are short of equipment, artillery ammunition is nearly all
gone; we can't expect military aid from the glorious Western democracies. We
can see the specter of total military catastrophe, the loss of even greater
territories, an economic collapse, and the break-up of the state system of
governance.
We are losing. We are losing because we are fighting an
enemy which we do not want to defeat. The enemy is not the homegrown
separatists, not Russian occupiers, and not even the entire "Russian world" of
Putin. We are our own enemy number one: our cowardly short-sighted leaders and
clumsy commanders; our new/old Rada, incapable of accepting the responsibility
for the country; the mindless corruption which had become a part of our lives;
our serf worldview which expects favors from a good master.
We do have enlightened minds, clean hands, and burning
hearts. Nearly all of them are at the front. In general brains work better at
war; life becomes more understandable and people show their true nature. Here
you are valued by your deeds and not by your words; no rank, expensive
equipment, or fashionable assault rifle are worth anything if the person is a
craven coward. Here they fight well enough, to the extent that our GenStaff
does not interfere; they consider each peace agreement the prelude to an even
bigger war, and they know what needs to be done for that victory.
It's different behind the front. Some are praying for the
president, others curse him. While cursing, they find themselves a new icon on
the blue screen, and pray to it. Behind the front, people put their hopes in
the West, sanctions, and military aid. They consider all volunteers heroes, and
the prominent battalion commanders Napoleons. Behind the front they don't want
to fight and don't like bad news. In the battle between the truth about the war
and the TV, the latter wins. When the reality of war penetrates mass
consciousness, the citizens fall into cognitive dissonance with the propaganda
inculcated earlier. It may end with a blind rebellion-an assault on the
presidential administration, a siege of the GenStaff, the burning of the Rada,
or the destruction of other foundations of the state which would only make our
northern neighbor happy.
The northern neighbor wants Ukraine. Putin dreams of
rebuilding the USSR. The majority of Russia's population wants the same thing.
Chauvinism is reaching unheard-of heights, military hysteria is growing,
peaceful inhabitants of affluent Russian cities are ready to come to kill us.
Putin is prepared to launch a direct aggression. The West and the US will not
fight for us. Kremlin had won a convincing victory in the war of nerves against
the entire civilized world: Ukraine was surrendered to Putin like
Czechoslovakia to Hitler. We are losing. We are, in fact, alone, one on one
with a cruel enemy. But we want to win. What is to be done? Fight in the rear
areas and fight at war. Don't rebel but forcefully change the system. Change
yourselves. Build a new army. Advance talented combat commanders. Develop the
military-industrial complex.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c8_1424972228BaldyoldgitWe are losing-Ukraine,Kiev,whine,give us moneyAmerica Has Been At War 93% of the Time - 222 Out of 239 Years - Since 1776Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:43:32 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d7c_1424878482
MagicSonnyThis is a year-by-year timeline of America's wars, which reveals something quite interesting: since the United States was founded in 1776, she has been at war during 214 out of her 235 calendar years of existence. In other words, there were only 21 calendar years in which the U.S. did not wage any wars.
- Pick any year since 1776 and there is about a 91% chance that America was involved in some war during that calendar year.
- No U.S. president truly qualifies as a peacetime president. Instead, all U.S. presidents can technically be considered "war presidents."
- The U.S. has never gone a decade without war.
- The only time the U.S. went five years without war (1935-40) was during the isolationist period of the Great Depression.
1776 - American Revolutionary War, Chickamagua Wars, Second Cherokee War, Pennamite-Yankee War
1777 - American Revolutionary War, Chickamauga Wars, Second Cherokee War, Pennamite-Yankee War
1778 - American Revolutionary War, Chickamauga Wars, Pennamite-Yankee War
1779 - American Revolutionary War, Chickamauga Wars, Pennamite-Yankee War
1780 - American Revolutionary War, Chickamauga Wars, Pennamite-Yankee War
1781 - American Revolutionary War, Chickamauga Wars, Pennamite-Yankee War
1782 - American Revolutionary War, Chickamauga Wars, Pennamite-Yankee War
1783 - American Revolutionary War, Chickamauga Wars, Pennamite-Yankee War
1784 - Chickamauga Wars, Pennamite-Yankee War, Oconee War
1785 - Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1786 - Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1787 - Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1788 - Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1789 - Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1790 - Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1791 - Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1792 - Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1793 - Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1794 - Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1795 - Northwest Indian War
1796 - No major war
1797 - No major war
1798 - Quasi-War
1799 - Quasi-War
1800 - Quasi-War
1801 - First Barbary War
1802 - First Barbary War
1803 - First Barbary War
1804 - First Barbary War
1805 - First Barbary War
1806 - Sabine Expedition
1807 - No major war
1808 - No major war
1809 - No major war
1810 - U.S. occupies Spanish-held West Florida
1811 - Tecumseh's War
1812 - War of 1812, Tecumseh's War, Seminole Wars, U.S. occupies Spanish-held Amelia Island and other parts of East Florida
1813 - War of 1812, Tecumseh's War, Peoria War, Creek War, U.S. expands its territory in West Florida
1814 - War of 1812, Creek War, U.S. expands its territory in Florida, Anti-piracy war
1815 - War of 1812, Second Barbary War, Anti-piracy war
1816 - First Seminole War, Anti-piracy war
1817 - First Seminole War, Anti-piracy war
1818 - First Seminole War, Anti-piracy war
1819 - Yellowstone Expedition, Anti-piracy war
1820 - Yellowstone Expedition, Anti-piracy war
1821 - Anti-piracy war (see note above)
1822 - Anti-piracy war (see note above)
1823 - Anti-piracy war, Arikara War
1824 - Anti-piracy war
1825 - Yellowstone Expedition, Anti-piracy war
1826 - No major war
1827 - Winnebago War
1828 - No major war
1829 - No major war
1830 - No major war
1831 - Sac and Fox Indian War
1832 - Black Hawk War
1833 - Cherokee Indian War
1834 - Cherokee Indian War, Pawnee Indian Territory Campaign
1835 - Cherokee Indian War, Seminole Wars, Second Creek War
1836 - Cherokee Indian War, Seminole Wars, Second Creek War, Missouri-Iowa Border War
1837 - Cherokee Indian War, Seminole Wars, Second Creek War, Osage Indian War, Buckshot War
1838 - Cherokee Indian War, Seminole Wars, Buckshot War, Heatherly Indian War
1839 - Cherokee Indian War, Seminole Wars
1840 - Seminole Wars, U.S. naval forces invade Fiji Islands
1841 - Seminole Wars, U.S. naval forces invade McKean Island, Gilbert Islands, and Samoa
1842 - Seminole Wars
1843 - U.S. forces clash with Chinese, U.S. troops invade African coast
1844 - Texas-Indian Wars
1845 - Texas-Indian Wars
1846 - Mexican-American War, Texas-Indian Wars
1847 - Mexican-American War, Texas-Indian Wars
1848 - Mexican-American War, Texas-Indian Wars, Cayuse War
1849 - Texas-Indian Wars, Cayuse War, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians
1850 - Texas-Indian Wars, Cayuse War, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Yuma War, California Indian Wars, Pitt River Expedition
1851 - Texas-Indian Wars, Cayuse War, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, Yuma War, Utah Indian Wars, California Indian Wars
1852 - Texas-Indian Wars, Cayuse War, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Yuma War, Utah Indian Wars, California Indian Wars
1853 - Texas-Indian Wars, Cayuse War, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Yuma War, Utah Indian Wars, Walker War, California Indian Wars
1854 - Texas-Indian Wars, Cayuse War, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, California Indian Wars, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians
1855 - Seminole Wars, Texas-Indian Wars, Cayuse War, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, California Indian Wars, Yakima War, Winnas Expedition, Klickitat War, Puget Sound War, Rogue River Wars, U.S. forces invade Fiji Islands and Uruguay
1856 - Seminole Wars, Texas-Indian Wars, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, California Indian Wars, Puget Sound War, Rogue River Wars, Tintic War
1857 - Seminole Wars, Texas-Indian Wars, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, California Indian Wars, Utah War, Conflict in Nicaragua
1858 - Seminole Wars, Texas-Indian Wars, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Mohave War, California Indian Wars, Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-Paloos War, Utah War, U.S. forces invade Fiji Islands and Uruguay
1859 Texas-Indian Wars, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, California Indian Wars, Pecos Expedition, Antelope Hills Expedition, Bear River Expedition, John Brown's raid, U.S. forces launch attack against Paraguay, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1860 - Texas-Indian Wars, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, California Indian Wars, Paiute War, Kiowa-Comanche War
1861 - American Civil War, Texas-Indian Wars, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, California Indian Wars, Cheyenne Campaign
1862 - American Civil War, Texas-Indian Wars, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, California Indian Wars, Cheyenne Campaign, Dakota War of 1862,
1863 - American Civil War, Texas-Indian Wars, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, California Indian Wars, Cheyenne Campaign, Colorado War, Goshute War
1864 - American Civil War, Texas-Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, California Indian Wars, Cheyenne Campaign, Colorado War, Snake War
1865 - American Civil War, Texas-Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, California Indian Wars, Colorado War, Snake War, Utah's Black Hawk War
1866 - Texas-Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, California Indian Wars, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians, Snake War, Utah's Black Hawk War, Red Cloud's War, Franklin County War, U.S. invades Mexico, Conflict with China
1867 - Texas-Indian Wars, Long Walk of the Navajo, Apache Wars, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians, Snake War, Utah's Black Hawk War, Red Cloud's War, Comanche Wars, Franklin County War, U.S. troops occupy Nicaragua and attack Taiwan
1868 - Texas-Indian Wars, Long Walk of the Navajo, Apache Wars, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians, Snake War, Utah's Black Hawk War, Red Cloud's War, Comanche Wars, Battle of Washita River, Franklin County War
1869 - Texas-Indian Wars, Apache Wars, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians, Utah's Black Hawk War, Comanche Wars, Franklin County War
1870 - Texas-Indian Wars, Apache Wars, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians, Utah's Black Hawk War, Comanche Wars, Franklin County War
1871 - Texas-Indian Wars, Apache Wars, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians, Utah's Black Hawk War, Comanche Wars, Franklin County War, Kingsley Cave Massacre, U.S. forces invade Korea
1872 - Texas-Indian Wars, Apache Wars, Utah's Black Hawk War, Comanche Wars, Modoc War, Franklin County War
1873 - Texas-Indian Wars, Comanche Wars, Modoc War, Apache Wars, Cypress Hills Massacre, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1874 - Texas-Indian Wars, Comanche Wars, Red River War, Mason County War, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1875 - Conflict in Mexico, Texas-Indian Wars, Comanche Wars, Eastern Nevada, Mason County War, Colfax County War, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1876 - Texas-Indian Wars, Black Hills War, Mason County War, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1877 - Texas-Indian Wars, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians, Black Hills War, Nez Perce War, Mason County War, Lincoln County War, San Elizario Salt War, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1878 - Paiute Indian conflict, Bannock War, Cheyenne War, Lincoln County War, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1879 - Cheyenne War, Sheepeater Indian War, White River War, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1880 - U.S. forces invade Mexico
1881 - U.S. forces invade Mexico
1882 - U.S. forces invade Mexico
1883 - U.S. forces invade Mexico
1884 - U.S. forces invade Mexico
1885 - Apache Wars, Eastern Nevada Expedition, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1886 - Apache Wars, Pleasant Valley War, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1887 - U.S. forces invade Mexico
1888 - U.S. show of force against Haiti, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1889 - U.S. forces invade Mexico
1890 - Sioux Indian War, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians, Ghost Dance War, Wounded Knee, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1891 - Sioux Indian War, Ghost Dance War, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1892 - Johnson County War, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1893 - U.S. forces invade Mexico and Hawaii
1894 - U.S. forces invade Mexico
1895 - U.S. forces invade Mexico, Bannock Indian Disturbances
1896 - U.S. forces invade Mexico
1897 - No major war
1898 - Spanish-American War, Battle of Leech Lake, Chippewa Indian Disturbances
1899 - Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1900 - Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1901 - Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1902 - Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1903 - Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1904 - Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1905 - Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1906 - Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1907 - Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1908 - Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1909 - Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1910 - Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1911 - Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1912 - Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1913 - Philippine-American War, Banana Wars, New Mexico Navajo War
1914 - Banana Wars, U.S. invades Mexico
1915 - Banana Wars, U.S. invades Mexico, Colorado Paiute War
1916 - Banana Wars, U.S. invades Mexico
1917 - Banana Wars, World War I, U.S. invades Mexico
1918 - Banana Wars, World War I, U.S invades Mexico
1919 - Banana Wars, U.S. invades Mexico
1920 - Banana Wars
1921 - Banana Wars
1922 - Banana Wars
1923 - Banana Wars, Posey War
1924 - Banana Wars
1925 - Banana Wars
1926 - Banana Wars
1927 - Banana Wars
1928 - Banana Wars
1930 - Banana Wars
1931 - Banana Wars
1932 - Banana Wars
1933 - Banana Wars
1934 - Banana Wars
1935 - No major war
1936 - No major war
1937 - No major war
1938 - No major war
1939 - No major war
1940 - No major war
1941 - World War II
1942 - World War II
1943 - Wold War II
1944 - World War II
1945 - World War II
1946 - Cold War (U.S. occupies the Philippines and South Korea)
1947 - Cold War (U.S. occupies South Korea, U.S. forces land in Greece to fight Communists)
1948 - Cold War (U.S. forces aid Chinese Nationalist Party against Communists)
1949 - Cold War (U.S. forces aid Chinese Nationalist Party against Communists)
1950 - Korean War, Jayuga Uprising
1951 - Korean War
1952 - Korean War
1953 - Korean War
1954 - Covert War in Guatemala
1955 - Vietnam War
1956 - Vietnam War
1957 - Vietnam War
1958 - Vietnam War
1959 - Vietnam War, Conflict in Haiti
1960 - Vietam War
1961 - Vietnam War
1962 - Vietnam War, Cold War (Cuban Missile Crisis; U.S. marines fight Communists in Thailand)
1963 - Vietnam War
1964 - Vietnam War
1965 - Vietnam War, U.S. occupation of Dominican Republic
1966 - Vietnam War, U.S. occupation of Dominican Republic
1967 - Vietnam War
1968 - Vietnam War
1969 - Vietnam War
1970 - Vietnam War
1971 - Vietnam War
1972 - Vietnam War
1973 - Vietnam War, U.S. aids Israel in Yom Kippur War
1974 - Vietnam War
1975 - Vietnam War
1976 - No major war
1977 - No major war
1978 - No major war
1979 - Cold War (CIA proxy war in Afghanistan)
1980 - Cold War (CIA proxy war in Afghanistan)
1981 - Cold War (CIA proxy war in Afghanistan and Nicaragua), First Gulf of Sidra Incident
1982 - Cold War (CIA proxy war in Afghanistan and Nicaragua), Conflict in Lebanon
1983 - Cold War (Invasion of Grenada, CIA proxy war in Afghanistan and Nicaragua), Conflict in Lebanon
1984 - Cold War (CIA proxy war in Afghanistan and Nicaragua), Conflict in Persian Gulf
1985 - Cold War (CIA proxy war in Afghanistan and Nicaragua)
1986 - Cold War (CIA proxy war in Afghanistan and Nicaragua)
1987 - Conflict in Persian Gulf
1988 - Conflict in Persian Gulf, U.S. occupation of Panama
1989 - Second Gulf of Sidra Incident, U.S. occupation of Panama, Conflict in Philippines
1990 - First Gulf War, U.S. occupation of Panama
1991 - First Gulf War
1992 - Conflict in Iraq
1993 - Conflict in Iraq
1994 - Conflict in Iraq, U.S. invades Haiti
1995 - Conflict in Iraq, U.S. invades Haiti, NATO bombing of Bosnia and Herzegovina
1996 - Conflict in Iraq
1997 - No major war
1998 - Bombing of Iraq, Missile strikes against Afghanistan and Sudan
1999 - Kosovo War
2000 - No major war
2001 - War on Terror in Afghanistan
2002 - War on Terror in Afghanistan and Yemen
2003 - War on Terror in Afghanistan, and Iraq
2004 - War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen
2005 - War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen
2006 - War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen
2007 - War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen
2008 - War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen
2009 - War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen
2010 - War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen
2011 - War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen; Conflict in Libya (Libyan Civil War)
2012 - War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Syria and Yemen
2013 - War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Syria and Yemen
2014 - War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Syria and Yemen; Civil War in Ukraine
2015 - War on Terror in Somalia, Somalia, Syria and Yemen; Civil War in Ukraine
http://www.infowars.com/america-has-been-at-war-93-of-the-time-222-out-of-239-years-since-1776/http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d7c_1424878482MagicSonnyAmerica Has Been At War 93% of the Time - 222 Out of 239 Years - Since 1776usa, america, warYatsenuk Strikes Back - President vs the Prime MinisterTue, 24 Feb 2015 20:31:53 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d20_1424823240
TatzhitAfter the hryvna/dollar began to fall at a rate of two per day, Prime Minister Yatsenuk completely disappeared from the national media. He did not tell about the secret negotiations in UN bathrooms about obtaining "precision weapons", did not encourage the population with the news about billions of dollars that have almost arrived in country; he even stopped talking about The Great Wall of Ukraine along the border. And that, by the way, was his pet project*. He would always mention installing new landmines along it, or say saving successfully cutting its cost by another four billion. Everyone has become accustomed to his amusingly dishonest jabber, when suddenly he was gone. And just as suddenly, he popped up now, once the real exchange rate reached 34 hryvna per dollar.
Rabbit-faced Arseniy was unusually tough. The two-day stubble, carefully groomed by personal makeup artist, provocatively bristled around his manly face. Yatsenuk unexpectedly announced the purges, flogging and executions (figuratively speaking) of the thieving officials. And chose to do so exactly at the moment when head of the nation was almost literally on his knees - Poroshenko went to beg the arrogant Arabs from the United Arab Emirates for the latest weapon systems. Supreme Commander has deftly demonstrated that he follows the latest trends and can also ask random countries for "precision weapons". Obama, unfortunately, could not spare any for Waltzman**, so the President had to look for alternatives at an arms fair in the Emirates. Rumor has it that the Arabs have agreed to sell canned pork, which they mistakenly purchased in some East European military surplus deal. But I digress.
Taking advantage of the absence of the father of the nation, the Prime Minister "took a big step", as he put it. I do not know what he took, really, but all the heads of the State Fiscal Service were suspended "pending official investigation." The head of department, Igor Bilous, his first deputy in charge of the tax police, Vladimir Khomenko, and Anatoliy Makarenko (Chief of Customs) were kicked out of their offices, almost by force. Yatsenuk did not stop at this victory and announced a similar purge for the SBU and the Prosecutor General's office, that is, Waltzman's vassals.
The prime minister said that he supposedly met on this issue with the president and that he had full support. But we have mentioned Poroshenko's trip to the Emirates for a reason. He's been wheeling and dealing there for three days already, almost on the verge of converting to Islam for the sake of obtaining some "wunderwaffe". There was no time when Arseniy could have met with the President. Moreover, the last time they've seen each other was during a meeting of the National Security Council on the so-called "successful run from Debaltsevo salient." Waltzman had no other meetings with the Prime Minister.
And now - what this all means. After the "national leader" upset Alexander Turchinov's and Arsen Avakov's (and, of course, Yatsenuk's) plan on celebrating the anniversary of the Maidan with a nice quiet coup, he in turn decided to depose the "rabbit grown too large***" (i.e. Yatsenyuk, the expression belongs to the head of President's Administration Borys Lozhkin). The plan was to make the PM a scapegoat for the failure of reforms, the incredible devaluation of the hryvna, corruption, the whole deal. The administration understands that merely firing of the head of the National Bank Valeria Gontareva will not solve the problem of rising dissent. The currency market today is going completely bonkers. The collapse of the hryvna has already provoked a sharp rise in gasoline prices (an average of 30%) and basic necessities. Even the traditional mantra of "whatdoyouwant-theresawaron" no longer helps.
Moreover, the administration has already given up on the so-called "democratic coalition" which nominated Arseniy as PM. To date, the coalition members flatly refuse to vote for budget changes demanded by the IMF. As the IMF wants to raise the prices of utilities at least three-fold, the price of gas for the population to increase by 268 percent, plus "details" such as raising the retirement age, taking fifteen
percent from the pensions of working pensioners, freezing the already
poverty-level wages, etc. - one can certainly see where the congressmen are coming from. Even "patriots" realize that by voting for this "eurointegration" they would bury their political careers for good. And consider themselves really lucky if their physical bodies aren't buried as well by the "grateful" populace. That is why the discussion of "IMF" budget amendments has been postponed three times already. Initially an unscheduled session was planned before the twentieth of February, then changed to February 26th, and now it's postponed until the third of March.
In such a scenario, there is no need for the coalition and for Yatsenyuk as the PM. Arseniy understands this. Therefore, on the orders of his his patron Igor Kolomoisky, he tried to counterattack. The widely announced suspension of three chief fiscal services executives is a "subtle" hint of other possible corruption scandals.
These men were supposed to be part of the President share of the government. And suddenly the Prime Minister, in violation of all coalition agreements, de-facto almost fired three of Waltzman's henchmen. And what henchmen! They controlled the biggest financial flows watering President's Administration - taxes and customs duties. Moreover, Yatsenyuk accused the State Security and Prosecutor General's Office - also Waltzman's vassals - of "protecting" their corruption schemes.
In all fairness, it should be noted that Arseniy does not care much for the prime minister's post at this point. He has repeatedly expressed his willingness to retire. He already earned plenty of money, and moreover, Yatsenyuk is well aware that the chair under him is not just smoldering, but already going up in flames. But Kolomoysky said fight, and Arseniy went into battle.
Immediately, "ATO veterans" from the paramilitaries controlled by the Dnepropetrovsk oligarch are dragging tires to the building of the National Bank, threatening to "burn Waltzmann's b**ch ". The counterattack of the Turchinov-Yatsenuk-Kolomoysky group has started.
Tomorrow, February 25, there is a planned protest march by Kolomoisky-controlled "Right Sector" extremists. "RightSectants" are set to storm the National Bank and Presidential Administration. Their plans have caused an explosion of approval in social networks, where even the biggest "patriots" are beginning to pay attention to the plunge of the hryvnia, and not the ruble like they did before.
Washington's strategy, which warned of the PM-President conflict, is beginning to crumble. Of course, we should not think that in the next two days Waltzman's Administration and the National Bank will go up in flames. This escalation is just to dissuade http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d20_1424823240TatzhitYatsenuk Strikes Back - President vs the Prime Ministeryatsenuk, Ukraine, squablling, junta, intrigue, revolution of dignity